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One of the most telling buzz-phrases there is. That and throwing the skygod insult at all of the experienced people that disagree. Oops, I mean agree to disagree. (Heaven forbid that we might disagree to disagree). " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

My read on that is that he knows who to take care of to keep administrative things moving at something more than the typical Bahamian pace. Sounds like an absolute gas. Good luck in making it happen. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I was about to comment that you will lose money at $1500 for the week and your customers are all or mostly skydivers - but the $40 to $60 jumps will make up for it - as long as the price of fuel isn't too outrageous. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

What davelepka said - in spades. Big emphasis on working your way to next things (like sitting) only after getting good at the basics (like arching and fall rate and tracking). Also, get an RW suit. Maybe you can get lucky and find a used one that fits just right. Don't settle for "close enough." Get one that fits just right. My guess is yours will need to be tight. Work with your instructors and the local RW veterans who have jumped with you for exact recommendations. IMO, if you buy new, get the booties now. Even if you don't use them now you will want them very soon if you are going to do RW. They can be folded under and tucked in easy enough if you aren't going to use them right away. I tell students that their own well-fitted suit should be at or near the top of their shopping list. Good form and a good suit will get you a consistent fall rate, everything else will follow. At your weight, you may need lead; but sort out your form and get your suit first. BTW, why are you asking here? Are you looking to confirm what others on-site have told you? Nobody knows what you need more than the instructors and veterans you jump with. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Work your way up. Done a 20K yet? Just requires oxygen in the plane, you get 95 seconds of freefall, and there is a noticeable difference in the view. Did one this summer and it was amazing how many points we turned given our very average skills. I believe it was about 20 points, every 4th of which was spinning an Oppenheimer for about 5 seconds. What a gas; wish we had gotten video. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Whoever sent you the PM is a fucking moron for being reckless with your life - especially so via an internet posting. As someone said, the rules are written in the blood of those that have gone before us. Follow them and you stand a much greater chance of living to become one of the seasoned veteran instructors we learn from. Follow the advice of the consensus of the seasoned veterans that actually know you and watch you jump. Trust no one single person's advice on matters like this. I say that not because veteran's in general can't be trusted; I say it because there are outliers (cough - D41 - cough) to watch out for. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

a distinction without a difference Back to science class with you. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I think the explanation for evolution is the theory of natural selection. Just what I've read. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

This is the stupidity of the "can't we all just get along" theory. "Things will work out... we just need to give it some time." Instead, what we need are Muslims who stand up and say, "The Taliban will disfigure children for the 'crime' of walking to school. Any group who would do this is evil." Simple. Instead? We have young men of Somali descent who went back to fight for Somalia on the Taliban side. Muslim clerics in all western societies need to say that the Taliban is wrong. That the Taliban is not the voice of Islam. Publicly. In their mosques. This would solve a range of problems. You really expect that immediately and en masse? How quickly we forget that some of our top leaders embraced the Taliban only a few short years ago as allies against communism. Our own leaders are willing to practice horribly superficial situational ethics for political and financial gain; yet you expect leaders of Islam to draw the line exactly where you think it should be, stand against major resistance to radical change, and risk all hope of exerting future positive influences so that our newfound (from a historical perspective) sensibilities are not offended? " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Both; which is not the same as approving what they do. I think seeking to understand comes first. Regardless of how abominable their actions may be to you or I; the only way to effect change* is to set aside the emotions and take a good look at what their principles are and how they came to be (from a long historical perspective). I understand how tempting it is to jump straight to labeling them as evil and calling for their extermination. Good thing some other soveriegn state didn't do that to us while we were still trading humans like they were sides of beef. But we evolved socially, bore the brunt of a nasty civil skirmish in the process, grew a lot for it, and continue to mature towards a more civil and equitable society. It just occurs to me that it has been too easy for many to cast stones now that we have moved to a house that is no longer all glass. And none of this even touches on the fact that much of their beliefs and operating principles are grounded in the very bad behavior acted out upon them by western culture as it grew to world dominance. *Brute force is of course an option, but would effectively amount to genocide; which really does not appear to have solved any problems where it has been attempted either. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Cool video; and "Surprise! Surprise!" It fell nearly straight down. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

No. These idiots have always been out there. They just have a better way of getting their message out now that there is an internet. The same point was made in the 9/11 truther thread recently. Some of them are so convinced that evolution doesn't happen. I gotta admit that many of them seem to prove that Darwin was wrong. Yep. Before the internet existed they were relegated to answering each others ads in the back of The National Enquirer. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I simply dig it when they are at least somewhat realistic. Most of them are totally unbelievable - I mean, nobody takes takes more than a few hard licks to the head and remains on their feet. Most Hollywood fight scenes are more like pro/fake wrestling. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

That was a long way to say you prefer organic, natural, non-oogie boogie spirituality to the organized, politicized, ghosts & goblins tripe peddled by churches. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

But by accepting what fits with your principles and rejecting what doesn't, aren't you just cherry-picking from their culture? And isn't that just expecting them to "modernize" or "westernize" in some areas but not others? I think you alluded to it in comparing to some of our cast off traditions - their culture will age and mature to one that provides equal rights to all (as we are still doing). They are just as not as far in the process yet. Don't forget that we are only 150 years past a time when it was OK to own other humans simply because they had different colored skin. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

BTW, everything you've proposed has been thoroughly debunked many times over. You are being mocked more than you are being seriously debated because of repeating the same BS over and over and over. It's like standing around the bonfire with a drunk who tells the same story 6 times every night. At some point the story is no longer the issue - the person is. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Yes, TV is limited, and a lot is not woth the effort of using the ON button; but it is orders of magnitude better than the Truther BS you peddle. Someone mentioned Lost. I'm not a fan, but am familiar with it, and it is more believable than the incredibly fantastic web you've been drawn into. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Those folks are good. Very funny; I love the delivery ('If we need to build the massive rocket anyway, why not just pop off to the Moon?'). Never saw them before; thanks for sharing. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

You didn't get the memo? It's been moved up to 12/21/2012. I'm still waiting to hear exactly what will end. The Universe? The world? (We'll need clarification for the term world on that one). The Earth? Civilization? Humanity? The nutjob people always need at least one really vague component in their claim. Since they've picked a specific date, you can expect the predicted event to be so vague that they can point to just about any natural or man-made disaster and say "See, there it is." " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Uh oh. Someone will now use rhyslogic to prove there were mobile homes parked inside the WTC. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Especially one who is not even funny. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

If a person knew something was false, but portayed it to be true, then they are lying. If they believed it to be true, and portayed it as such, then it is a lack of knowledge on the topic. Call it ignorance, or a mistake, but it is not a lie. Predictions not coming true are not lies. For one thing, since the future has not yet happened, and the predicted outcome has not yet occured or failed to occur, there is no way of knowing, and thus no lie can even be made - even if a person wanted to. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/07/sciences-dead-end/ I think your faith in science may be a bit blind. ..."The implications are obvious enough. While it might be possible to know everything about the physical materiality of the brain down to the last atom, its “product,” the five cardinal mysteries of the non-material mind are still unaccounted for: subjective awareness; free will; how memories are stored and retrieved; the “higher” faculties of reason and imagination; and that unique sense of personal identity that changes and matures over time but remains the same."... ... What kind of psuedo-science site is that from? The "five cardinal mysteries"???? The identity that changes but stays the same???? Ooooooooo. How mysterious and interesting!!!!! My crude synopsis (the earlier list) is the most likely (and accepted) explanation based on archaeological evidence. So yes, we can not "know" if knowing means having to have been a direct witness to all of history - but it the most accepted interpretation of the available evidence. And it was not so much not understanding the natural world - rather they were seeking to understand the natural world. They really thought they had it nailed. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

She did reply to her own post, accusing herself of knowing absolutely nothing, or to be more precise: "you aparrently know absolutley nothing." Come on, that's funny. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

If you like What about Bob? you will really dig Captain Ron. I like to use one of his lines with nervous students on the ride up (or just for fun): "Don't worry boss; if anything is going to happen, it'll happen out there." (While waving to the beautiful sky outside the window). " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley